Venue: the Merrill Theater at On the Boards
March 24th - 28th
March 24, 7pm
March 25, 7pm
March 26, 1pm
March 26, 7pm
March 27, 4pm
March 28, 7pm
Runtime: Approximately 2 hours
Created by Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON SHOW WITH SPACE LIMITED TO 66 PEOPLE PER PERFORMANCE
REVIVAL is an immersive performance. Admittance more than 20 minutes after the start time will be at the discretion of the box office.
This performance features significant use of airborne dust, in the form of diatomaceous earth, as well as a brief moment of flashing lights. If you have any questions or concerns regarding either element, please contact the Box Office.
“Lots to say. Much to feel about this sacred, moving, and near religious experience. The story of the world then and now is beautifully gifted. Wonderfully told, and rivetingly presented.” — Edward Rubin, Artes Magazine
“Timothy White Eagle’s collaborative project is a sublime evening of performance. We begin in a wild interactive carny midway but end with White Eagle weaving his stories, a mix of myth and personal history, into true transformative magic.” —Mark Russell, Artistic Director Under the Radar Festival, NYC
“Beautifully Meditative” — Michael Dale, BroadwayWorld
Revival is an immersive ritualistic theater and installation work by the well-known Seattle-based Indigenous artist Timothy White Eagle and his team of collaborators, The Violet Triangle–Paul Budraitis, HATLO, and John Kendall Wilson. This new theater work is rooted in ritual theater and explores one of the oldest and most universal myths, the story of a hero being swallowed alive and then returned, which has appeared around the world. The artists use this ancient story to ponder what it means to be living in our contemporary moment through isolation and longing for community. Timothy is well-known for artworks and live experiences that juxtapose the profane with the sacred.
Audiences will experience a visit to a carnival, where attendees play games in a loud, chaotic, and vibrant setting. Next the audience will be taken on a journey through space and time guided in the building of On the Boards on to the Merrill theater stage where audiences will be swallowed in the belly of the whale, La Baleine. This treasure filled journey will be marked by reliquaries staged throughout the space, each combining storytelling and universal mythology into fantastic sculptural elements. This new performance and installation work are by nature process-based, iterative, and generative. TWE and their collaborators use their COVID-era research as a series of development experiments both online and live to adapt Revival to each specific time and place it is performed.
Upper photos by Steven Miller
Lower photos by Richard Mitchell
About the artists
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HATLO is a queer artist living and making work on the land of the Duwamish Tribe, also known as Seattle. A versatile collaborator, Hatlo mixes a variety of generative roles (directing, dramaturgy, writing, performing etc) to support the development of new performance experiments. Hatlo has worked with over a dozen celebrated Northwest performing artists and companies to create world premieres across multiple disciplines. Frequent collaborators include Timothy White-Eagle, Markeith Wiley, Rosa Vissers (as PE|Mo), Dani Tirrell, Fox Whitney and Shontina Vernon. Hatlo has been nominated for a Gregory New Play Award for their original play STUCK and for a Stranger Genius award as part of the creative team for Thatswhatshesaid. Hatlo was the 2019 Seattle Town Hall Artist-in-Residence, where they facilitated the SOW Queer residency and showcase with 50 local artists.
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Paul Budraitis is a director, performer, teacher, and generative artist, newly based in Berlin. He received a Fulbright grant to study directing at the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania, under the mentorship of visionary director Jonas Vaitkus. In Seattle, Paul directed the world premieres of Elizabeth Heffron's Bo-Nita (Seattle Repertory Theatre) and Kristen Kosmas’ The People’s Republic of Valerie (On the Boards), as well as the Northwest premieres of Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses (New Century Theatre Company) and David Greig’s The Events (Intiman Theatre). Most recently, as part of The Violet Triangle, he collaborated on the world premiere of The Indigo Room at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York.
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John Kendall Wilson is a professor emeritus with Cornish College of the Arts. He taught primarily Auto-Cours, theater history, dramaturgy, and the history and theory of performance art.
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Crystal Cortez is a sound, installation artist & programmer based out of Portland, Oregon. She is also a professor of Creative Coding & Sonic Arts at Portland Community College. Her work focuses on the empowerment of underserved populations gaining access and knowledge around technology. Under her performance moniker Crystal Quartez she transforms field recordings, uses synthesis, audio programming, data sonification, and 3D sound spatialization to produce complex sonic realms.
Previous Performances by Timothy White Eagle
Credits
This production received development funding by Western Artist Alliance/Advancing Indigenous Performance and 4 Culture Project Grant.
This performance is an expanded version of The Indigo Room which was presented at La Mama November 11 -21, 2021.
Proof of vaccination* or negative Covid test within 24 hours will be required for entry. Patrons are required to wear masks during the entire event.
*Photo of vaccination card is acceptable. If you do not have your card, you can access your vaccination record remotely by creating an account on the WA Dept of Health Immunization Information System, WA.MyIR.net.